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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 8, 1973, p. 5

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HIGH SCHOOL INSIGHTS lit RAID THURSDAY B I ML Hi Winter Carnival Festivities Over for Another Year The Winter lor another year but what a carnival It was The grade Winter Carnival Committee led by Jane laboured Tor over months lo us seven packed Although many of the events were open wily for high school students there were still quite a things for the general public to be involved In lNCAK Saturday the of January kicked off the festivities with the Pancake meals of three pancakes with milk or coffee for cents per helping What belter to begin a festival than to serve a delicious meal to the crowds IH This year s tar was held on Sunday January JH despite the freezing rain and snow Thi OH rally was set up by Ian Lone and Pope included seven checkpoints cars began the rally made It as far as the 1st check point Of Hum only five found the second checkpoint iw finished Ihe rally wcother confuting directions and one the checkpoints caused general confusion among tin competitors One car Doug Getty was damngid but Doug was unharmed The winners of the rally were Doug Miel and Leslie Burns in car Council Briefs Monday Georgetown council meeting council pointed Mrs flames 2D Irinu tries Drive to a three year term on tin public libnry board build the through area will area o a meeting for the Georgetown district in Cen ranted licences to sell school gymnasium licences tickets In town to the of Ontario Received word from Local Sports Ontario UP which represents the town works staff that Kent Viewed imtlil sketches for Wire the Sol has resigned as the proposed community lull Commission which is in and Gerry winch the Lion Club plant to proposed power las appointed acting president That night the Snow Queen Pageant was held to choose the girl who would reign over the remaining festivities The semi finalists were Shelley Leinweber Cheryl urlotte Cathy Heather Janice Kim Nancy Hall Tracy Porter Hurt and Leslie Mitchell The pageant began at with the semi finalists being escorted in by boys of the grade Hob McKay a teacher in the GDIIS Geography Department read descriptions of the girls their hobbies and ambitions which the wrote themselves Miss Janice Barber was chosen and then the girls left the stage to change The judges then left also The judges were Mrs Bowman teacher in the Math department Mr Jack Sturm head of the Math department Mr Bill Bingham an English teacher and coach of Georgetown Uphill Ski team and Mrs Evelyn Saunders who is not in the school staff While the decision was being made there was a short In and the band played modern music The Hi semi finalists returned and the judges announced the five finalists fachhad to answer a question supplied by the and the judges left to make their final decision During this time the boys presented a fashion show with the lop six models in Toron to The crowd roared with laughter when Louise played by Louie came onto the stage with an ugly green dress foam padding in the right places and his burly hair and moustache Five other models played by the grade 13 boys presented a hilarious and totally absurd show to which the audience split with laughter Finally he girls returned and the judges proclaimed the winners In order they were Kim runner Nancy Hat 3rd runner up Tracy Porter 2nd runner up Carcn Burt 1st runner up Queen Leslie Mitchell Leslie was crowned Snow Queen by last year s Snow Queen Connie Allen She received the tiara with which she was crowned donated by John Jewellers a SIS voucher from Robert John fashions a candle from Georgetown Stationary chocolates from Kentners Pharmacy necklaces from a Jewellers and Image a wallet from Barbers Jewellers a perfume gift set from Youngs Pharmacy and voucher from each of North Sports Silvers Centre lees No a Volkswagen Car No driven by John Snoehr navigated by Neil Wilson dim in second it was tricky the competitor all that the rally was a lot of fun Tilt- TR1KP so Monday after school wis the spectacle of the carnival the tricycle race The race was Jit laps around the outside of the and began with time trials to give the of the At race began with start had In be ridden limes before the drivers could change There was touching of feet on the flor unless the broke in which case the driver hid to repair the Teams in the race who did not win included Mir in and Dave Alexander John Kennedy and John Sargeant and Nancy Mac donald and Path One trike fell apart before race began There was a lot of dirt play during the race such as p over r competitors on their and running instead of riding when the judges see of walls of The win were Lou Karolidis and Peter competitors to finish all to laps One lap behind Ken and Dave Herman came in The winners decided to let second place receive the since and Peter were the organizers of the race At the same time as the Trike Georgetown was Ihe host at a basketball triple header against White Oaks The midgets were first The had their problems Although foul shootingwas poor George town defeated White Oiks to 31 The Juniors who lost their game arc beginning to lose hope for the playoffs unless they can start winning soon The Seniors played the final game and ended the three games with a Georgetown victory They beat White Oaks with a score of to The senior team has won all of the six games It has played in the basketball scries this NIGHT nival was held Variety Lou C for the night introduced Jorge I and Brian and Variety Night was underway After Jorge and Brian came a personality anxiously awaited The Great This somewhat inept magician played by Jerry at tempted to hypnotize a volunteer the audience and to change him with a little help from a beautiful assistant land a bottle into a dog This experiment met with limited success Next came not one but Iw Snow Queens One of models from fashion show of Saturday night impersonated the real Snow Queen until slu came on stage Jorge Lasso played a solo on the guitar anil was followed by once again Great Daren nee This was much better ll was the only thai The little Pinch hand mil III a Before an intermission for the band to set up the three inappropriately named ordination brothers do a routine and in Ihe process reduce their number by performer Respects to the Peter the band while the stage w is Kent lead a and answer period but almost before hew is finished Mian Beared on stage Steppinfi behind strategic illy placed screen Connie began disrobe the strains of suggestive music with intermittent protest from Kent and I idle George Unfortunate I when rcappeired had changed into another fashion show played Karolidis duet of classical music and Kent wis back on stage for skit on Respects to the late Kent The Great hack again despite prates from the audience I- or his last the misguided his beautiful into the famous model Kent did i spoof on shaving lotion ended up being shot by Ixiuisc After offstage music by Kent returned do brilliant imitations of form us people his voices re John Wayne Hurt Reynolds and Last hut to be sure not leas peared Sage played songs some new mostly about love played Night in the began a p at the cost of SI per person person could score points for himself by winning rounds with his partner or by having lone hinds The games lastedfor 10 to minute rounds The winner was Danny who claimed SID prize Sim Holmes win for second place and won fur Ihe most lone hands Only people showed up the two hour event run by John Kennedy and Sargeant because of the Orient alion Night being run by teachers and students for ejade sluilenls and their pircnls MARCH The annual Georgetown High School Winter Carnival ended in the extravaganza dance This costume dance was the perfect climax to a week of fun called It began at and went Id Wednesday was the band modern and rock music here was an Interesting nvilry between three boys dressed and labelled as bunnies and a motorcycle gang of over five couples who tiled themselves he Dix After a battle between gangs a prize was presented for the best costume At the middle of the dince there was of came broom I a II competition private learns begin and extended to of pi were formed students and teacher who hid to their own I rooms uniforms It was mistaking taken for granted the knew the rules of games There were teams of students and Icachcrs who mm find time to plav on top of their work In the final game teachers learn lost to the Din team The gallant teachers ere ll own students It Wednesday wis a calm diy with only the the mine The which had been for this time was Woodstock but Mr rurlong the principal decided that this movie should nol be played So movie played was Plav It bam stirring Allen crowd of to people the at j cents per person Themuviebeganat and was over Hi in There was one interjinssmn however ran mil of pop and chips due the Thursday the in lcbruar was the fir euchre players urn muni miscellaneous items The only useful item a case of pop was purchased by Mark at a price over its worth A week of fun came to a treat climax and a fantastic end until next year SPORTS On Friday February the 2nd the Georgetown basketball teams played I fortunately both the Midget and Junior teams lost crushing their hopes for the playoffs Thursday the 15lh is he day thai will host the County Wrestling Meet weeks ago we hosted the Georgetown Invitational Meet we came in 2nd of all the teams One of our wrestlers Martin Pollock who won 1st in the predicts he will win his weight class in meet by pinning all of his opponents He also predicts a win for Georgetown Do you think we can do if CRISIS from the Winter Carnival it was slill eventful last week The school council solved greatest crisis they have tackled jet this year In this column two weeks ago it was reported that Gorv Oliver president of the school council had resigned The remaining members at council were then faced with the greatest crisis of year On Wed lasi hey concluded the crisis splitting the remaining duties of president among the members and making Mark formcrlj treasurer president in name One good point though is that the majority of the president duties were completed before Gary resigned NIGHT the night of the Tournament teachers and students held an orientation night for grade students and their parents Each department explained next vears courses lo in parents and students for these courses Displays of the courses Included some of the veir work students planning on going to the high school must have completed course requeit forms todav Feb fl to be handed in the student Ices for This little rent had lo scoot before he or she melted and failed la name Other highlights of week of J to I Included the second of the I- the school newspaper m icainc The 14 page edition which was sup posed to have come out before Christmas cost much m ire interesting than first edition in November The news was quite old hick mid November The Store is prospering now that it has survived that first trying month slock increises weekly and soon Hit store will be fully stocked and staffed The chess tournament got under way on Wednesday and will be taking place every Wednesday for months when the winners have been chosen school pliy is itself for opening night on the nd of February Tickets are available from members of the cast and from Mr Morrow and Mr the school We hope that this irtlclc on the Winter has instllhd interest of the school Into you The school is a beehive of activity every nljht hours but suffers from lack of interest of students and parents Go the school and get involved in a student I timing about today youth is impossible unless is tackled with first hand experience MAXIPEDIC FOR EXTRAFIRM COMFORT QueenSize Set Mattress and box spring Sleep In Special 3 3 Mattress or box spring 6 Mattress or box spring 50 Both mattress and matching box spring ere extra firm to give you extra support mora comfort and longer mattress life 4Q5resilientAdustoRest coil construction luxury Extra support for the full length end width Matching box 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